RE: [PHP] Passing var to Flash

Put a textbox in the movie that just shows the value of the variable so that you can make sure the movie is reading. I'm not sure it is called a textbox, I don't do flash, I just help our designers debug when they hit a snag. You might be better off posting this to a flash list because this is a flash problem not a PHP problem. Also, you need to make sure you are doing in this tag too <PARAM NAME="movie" so that both browsers are getting the variable. I think IE reads the EMBED and NS reads the OBJECT, I could be wrong, but I know that both have to be right. > -----Original Message----- > From: Miles Thompson [mailto:milesthompson@ns.sympatico.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:59 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Passing var to Flash > > > I'm using a Flash movie which will publish daily sets of news stories. > > Writers of course need to preview their work, so they can see how > it will look in the movie. That's where I'm encountering trouble, > with the preview.php and preview.swf. The movie works fine on my > test server, but not on the production machine. > > It is as if the movie did not receive or accept the date variable > passed to it. > > Preview.php is called as follows, with the usual submit button. > <form method="post" target= "_blank" > action="preview.php?dtDate=<?php echo $dtLvTo?>"> > > Preview.php calls the preview.swf with this line, between > <OBJECT> tags ... > <EMBED src="AllNS_preview.swf?dtDate=<?echo $dtDate?>" > quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="490" HEIGHT="362" > NAME="AllNS_preview" ALIGN="" > TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" > > PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED> > > Which renders to the following HTML: > <embed src="AllNS_preview.swf?dtDate=2003-04-23" qual <rest snipped> > > Echoing dtDate within preview.php shows that it is passed > correctly, as does the above fragment. > > What I get is the movie, with no content. Within the movie, > content is called for with this line ... > > xmlReceiver.load( "http://" + host + > "feed_xml_story.php?dtDate=" > + dtDate); > (host is defined in an included .as file) > > Yes, I have tested the above, stand-alone, in the browser and it > creates an xml file used by the movie. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I've tried surrounding the date > with single quotes and it made no difference. The problem appears > to be with the Flash movie getting the date. > > Help & SWAG's will be appreciated - Miles Thompson > >